The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations - The Intercept
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Leaked slide deck from an internal GCHQ presentation prepared by the Joint Threat Intelligence Research Group. The ghouls are learning.

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Give a fool an unlimited budget and no oversight, and they are guaranteed to fuck up the world.

        • tim [he/him,they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Give a smart person an unlimited budget and no oversight and you’re likely to get similar results

          • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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            3 years ago

            There are no smart people. "Intelligence" is a measure of how thoroughly colonybrained you are. The more you are like the "right" kind of people, the smarter you are. That's why people think the CIA are smart, because they are an engine of empire.

            • ancom20 [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              "Intelligence" is a culturally bound descriptor, it means different things in different cultures.

      • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Because the vast majority of what they do is dumb thuggery, not the fine manipulation they'd have you think they do. Go listen to the most recent season of Blowback. It's a wonderful review of just how bad at any kind of subtlety the CIA actually is.

          • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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            3 years ago

            They really aren't. They do okay at it, but mostly they pay third-parties and use classification to maintain the (very important, from their perspective) illusion that they are master manipulators. They're mostly a bunch of over-educated Ivies graduates playing James Bond. They aren't as incompetent as they were in the fifties, but a big part of that is that they've figured out how to distribute their operations so that they have disclaimability on their side. That, plus the power of the spy mystique is the real secret of their operations.